So I’m not the only one who thinks he has an ego problem
ah yes shadow magic the financial loaner
when the entire thing is supposed to be community feedback
Get a negative feedback about it
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I think part of the problem is that these things did get questioned but never properly got addressed. Pretty much every time someone said “How did testers not see this as a problem” it drives us insane because it would be an issue that we’ve been complaining about for ages and it just never got addressed.
As soon as all the late game mage stuff got added I’m pretty sure it became unanimous that mage was overpowered, and size as a meta caught on around that time. The issue was not that “nobody caught on,” it was that it was never focused on or the changes weren’t enough.
Up until now we never did the coordinated document thing very often, it was just a once in a while thing.
“You had 2 years” also isn’t really a fair characterization considering things were changing constantly. It was more like “you had a few months and a few opportunities every here and there,” which I can understand still warrants criticism.
This also doesn’t include the fact that there were other issues we had to focus on as well, like making sure you can’t 3 shot people with beams or instakill people with Crystal conjurer.
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Yeah my bad, loner, but now I’m going to associate shadow with AO’s IRS. Something that a certain conqueror has to obey.
So yall didnt bother making a tester public document until shit hit the fan for 2 years?
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ngl shadow magic as the IRS makes perfect sense
they come out of nowhere to collect the taxes of citizens, then vanish back into the darkness… taking those funds and bills and using them for who knows what…
The order is actually just the tax collecting agency in AO trying to find a better way to collect taxes with magic (they’re why everything we sell is 25% it’s actual value, they’ll tax our cargo runs next).
Although enough of this considering this is a serious topic.
I inquire you to think about how a public document would be impactful on a game where less than 100 people have access.
As for private documents, as we said every once on a while but not frequently. Balance was never as focused on up until now. If it had been, we would have done collaboratove changes a lot more often.
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Then why wasnt it?
If you cared about amethyst conjurers not one shotting everything
Because balance patches are done very infrequently.
It’s crazy how we do this thinking it’s actually gonna be beneficial and yet all we get is people crying.
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Thinking aint actually trying them out and putting a big X on a problem
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Game is in early access to presumably balancing would fall under one of the things that would be reviewed during said early access through the usage of the sheer quantity of players.
MY FUCKING POINT!
Yeah it’s hard to do more than put a big X on the problem when balance patches were done like once a millenia
testers test and report, but its ultimately up to vetex to decide when he wants to push out the changes. sometimes vetex has accepted suggestion then just not do anything about it for a month bc hes working on other things
it’s just useless, which is also bad
Okay, then don’t touch it, nobody is getting their lives ruined by an unviable aura option
bursting aura is just gonna be “if you grab me you lose the whole fight lol” for 40 seconds.
So it has a use in deterring grabs…? Is it useless or not lmfao
nah he means that it basically entirely disables fighting style and rushdown builds, and most people dont care about gimmick abilities like this and just run power/resistance auras so it wouldnt make a big difference to remove it.
basically no one uses it (theres better auras) and when they do use it, you just win automatically against like a quarter of the builds
its best without bursting
In the vast majority of scenarios it’s useless and in certain scenarios it’s mind-bogglingly stupid.
This is not a hard concept to grasp it’s like if I added an ability that oneshots you only if you have Fire-Thermo combo. It’s useless in all aspects except one case in which it’s OP.